SmartSense ports and
traffic flow

When deploying SmartSense in an enterprise environment, you must carefully plan your
network architecture. SmartSense functionality relies on how multiple internal clusters create
bundles and then send them through a central SmartSense gateway to the hosted Hortonworks
environment for analysis or to Hortonworks support to troubleshoot support cases.

The following graphic illustrates how data traffic flows along various communication
channels between cluster nodes and SmartSense ports:

The communication channels
illustrated here are described in the following sections:

SmartSense gateway to HortonworksHortonworks does not initiate communications to the SmartSense gateway, all communication is initiated by the SmartSense gateway to Hortonworks. For this interaction, the following ports are used: